Blade for windshield wipers



Jan. 5, 1-932. M 1.. M. KEEFE 1,839,484

, BLADE FOR wnwsmm: wxrsns Filed July 18, 1930 Patented darn. 5, 1932 LEE-9,4341

LINCOLN M. KEEFE, OF BRIGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, OF ONE-HALF T KURT SCHORB, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS BLADEFOR WINDSHIELD WIPE-RS Application flied July 18, 1930. Serial No. 46%,826.

This invention relates to im rovements in windshield wipers and particularly to a blade therefor.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved blade for a windshiel wiper embodying therein a container for an antifreeze solution and a holder for a plurality of wiping elements, the container and holder bein constructed of a single piece of sheet meta and one of the wiping elements being constructed of absorbent material and projecting into the container in such a manner that the solution therein will be absorbed by the wi er member and then distributed upon 35 the wmdshield.

Another object of the invention is to so form the container and holder that the opposite side portions thereof will pinch the absorbent wiper member in such a manner that the rogress of the solution therethrough Wlll be retarded.

The invention consists in a blade for a windshield wiper as set forth in the following specification and particularly as pointed out in the claims thereof.

Referring to the drawings Fig. 1 represents a side elevation of a blade for a windshield wiper embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Like numerals refer to like parts in the views of-the drawings.

In the drawings, 5 re resents a piece of sheet metal bent lengthwise thereof to form a cylindrical liquid container 6 and a holder 7 having parallel side flanges 8. The combined container and holder is closed at the bottom at 9 and the container portion is closed at the top thereof by means of a plug 10.

Mounted within the holder 7 are a pair of rubber wiper members 11 between which is a wiper member 12 comprising a strip of absorbent material preferably felt. The wiper members 11 and 12 are held-securely in the holder 7 between the side flanges there of and the outer edge rtions of said flanges are bent inwardly slig tly and grip the oute surfaces of the wiper members 11.

The interior of the container 5 communicates with the interior of the holder 7 through a slot 13 and the absorbent wiper member 12- projects through said slot into the interior of the container. Where the absorbent wiper member 12 projects through the slot 13 opposite side portions 14 of the container, which form the slot, pinch the opposite side portions of said wiper member and compress the same a sufiicient amount to retard the progress of the anti-freeze solution as it passes through the wiper member, thereby preventing an excessive amount of said solution from passing through the wiper member.

It is evident that any desired number of wiper members may be mounted in the holder 7 as all that is necessary in order that the anti-freeze solution shall be roperly distributed to an automobile win shield is that at least one of these wiper members shall be constructed of absorbent materialand project into the container and also be pinched and compressed by the opposite sides of the container at the slot a suflicient amount to retard the progress of the solution therethrough and not permit an excessive amount of said solution to be distributed upon the windshield.

I claim:

1. A blade for a windshield wiper comprising, in combination, a container for liquid embodying therein a split tubular portion, a pair of flanges integral with said container and projecting laterally from the exterior thereof on opposite sides respectively of said split portion, said flanges being bent inwardly toward each other adjacent the split portron and constituting pressers, and a plurality of wiper members interposed between said flanges, one of said wiper members being constructed of absorbent material and project ing into said container and pinched between sald pressers, whereb the passage of liquid therethrough is retar ed.

2. A blade for a windshield wi er com-' prising, in combination, a container ior liquid. embodying therein a split tubular portion, a pair of flanges integral with said container and projecting laterally from the exterior thereof on opposite sides respectively of said.

split portion and terminat' in inwardly bent outer edge rtions, sai flanges also being bent inwar 1y toward each other'adja passa e of 1i uid therethrough is retarded and afl of sai wiper members bein simultaneousl between the cute @2 3: tions of said anges. 1

In testimony whereof I have-hereunto set my hand.

LINCOLN M. KEEFE; 

